Elisabeth

1999 0.0 (0 votes) 2h 22m

Genres

Music History

Production Companies

Joop van den Ende producties

Overview

Recording of a Dutch performance of the musical Elisabeth. It portrays the life and death of Empress Elisabeth of Austria, also known as "Sisi", the wife of Emperor Franz Joseph I, from her engagement and marriage in 1854 to her murder in 1898 at the hands of the Italian anarchist Luigi Lucheni; it focuses on her growing obsession with death, as her marriage and the empire crumble around her just before the turn of the 20th century.

Key Crew

Writer: Michael Kunze

Director: Eddy Habbema

Producer: Joop van den Ende

Top Cast

Pia Douwes

Keizerin Elisabeth

Stanley Burleson

De Dood

Wim Van Den Driessche

Luigi Lucheni

Jeroen Phaff

Keizer Frans Jozef I

Doris Baaten

Aartshertogin Sophie van Beieren

Addo Kruizinga

Aartshertog Rudolf (volwassen)

Nico Schaap

Hertog Maximiliaan Jozef

Nicole Hermans

Helene in Beieren/Frau Wolf